Piazza Colombo
Piazza Colombo is rich in history. On this site was the Montana Hotel built in 1902 by Issaco Georgetti: Trail's earliest Italian immigrant.
In 1990 the hotel burned to the ground, and the land stayed vacant until 2007.
Piazza Colombo was created by the hands of volunteers. Their goal was to reclaim and restore the site and to create a public space to commemorate the community’s Italian population.
The project won the Best Land Reclamation Award, presented by The Butchart Gardens, in 2009.
The park offers picnic tables, a fountain, and beautiful flower beds, and there is even part of the old basement that also has been restored.